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A month ago two leading shipping banks said they use ef? ciency information in their investment decision making, using a tool worked on jointly with DNV GL.

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Room, with a mission to focusing on accelerating the adoption of business solutions that reduce carbon emissions at gigaton-scale and advance the low- carbon economy, talked about the three developments as future trends describ- ing the focus on ef? ciency. Charterers had announced the week before that 20% of global shipped tonnage, repre- sented by 25 companies, are preferring more ef? cient vessels, thus excluding inef? cient vessels from their supply chain. A month ago two leading shipping banks (HSH Nordbank and KfW IPEX) said they use ef? ciency information in their investment decision making, us- ing a tool worked on jointly with DNV

GL. Carbon War Room works also with two Canadian ports which are offering discounts for more ef? cient vessels. An- other current development is on retro? t- ting technologies for ships. An example is wind propulsion technology, where

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